Re: [tor-dev] Special handling of .onion domains in Chrome/Firefox (post-IETF-standarization)

George Kadianakis:

Hello,

as you might know, the IETF recently decided to formally recognize .onion names as special-use domain names [0].

This means that normal browsers like Chrome and Firefox can now handle onion domains in a special manner since they know that they only correspond to Tor.

How would we like those browsers to treat onions?

mnot has some ideas: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1228457 And I guess it is quite probable that commenting on that bug could shape how that feature will be implemented in Firefox. (bonus points for a patch ;) )

Georg